Stillbirth of Poppy

Gary Barlow “hasn’t found peace yet”

Gary Barlow

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In August 2012, Gary Barlow (53) and his wife Dawn (54) were due to become parents for the fourth time, but their daughter Poppy was stillborn. In a rare interview, the Take That singer confessed that he was never really able to come to terms with the loss of his little girl.

The pain that Gary Barlow and his wife Dawn Andrews felt in August 2012 and every day since then is immeasurable: their daughter Poppy was born dead. She was the couple's fourth child together.

"I haven't really found peace yet"
A loss that Barlow has still not really been able to come to terms with. The 53-year-old still feels a sense of bitter injustice that this fate had to befall his family.

"I don't talk about it in great detail, and I really don't because I'm still coming to terms with it a bit. My wife's feelings were very different to mine. I was angry about it for a long time, I haven't really found peace with it yet," the Take That singer admitted honestly on the Australian podcast "The Imperfects".

"It's brought us even closer together"
The musician feared that he and his wife would split up. But the opposite was the case. "We had a worrying statistic when it happened to us: about 95 percent of couples break up when something like this happens to them. I think it's because men deal with it differently to women. My wife handles it much better than I do, she's a much stronger person than I am. She handled it all really well," admitted the 53-year-old.

He continued: "We are one of the lucky couples, because it has brought us even closer together, and we have three more children, and that has helped us. The youngest wasn't affected at all, but the older two still talk about it a lot. It's a highly complex thing that none of us should ever have to go through. I think it's made me stronger, I think. I think things like that have to, don't they?"

Declaration of love to wife Dawn
Later in the podcast, the singer gushed even more about his wife Dawn. She is a special mother and has raised their three children together, enabling him to do his job. "She put her dreams to one side and I still have to do mine. She's done a brilliant job, everyone who meets our children always says how great they are. She's a wonderful woman, she's pretty hard on me, I have to be honest."